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Hi,

I have the Toshiba SD-R2102 in my Dell laptop. When I tried to update the firm ware to the 1715 (from 1D10), the update failed.

Now when I try to boot my laptop with that drive plugged in, the laptop doesn't see the COMBO drive or the HD. Somehave any ideas?

thanks!

Bad flashing could destroy your drive definitively.
Read carefully the installation notes of your firmware before you upgrade.
REMEMBER: This is at your own risk!!!!

The 1D10 Firmware and the 1715 firmwares are not compatible - put back the 1D10 firmware and hope it still works.

I think you'll find that 1D10 and 1715 are in fact compatible but Dell BIOSs do not like them.

To the first question. I have a Dell Inspiron 4000 series and I have converted my drive to a modular bay rather than fixed bay (all CD drives are built to the same spec).

When I moved from 1D10 to 1715 the BIOS rejected it and forced me to restart. But if I removed it and let it boot then re-inserted as Windows booted, Windows (XP) recognised it as normal with firmware 1715.

So I would suggest you do that or if you have an Inspiron 8000 series or C800 then remove the single [*Profanity*] under the drive and slide it out whilst the PC starts because that may be why it is killing your hard disk (IDE conflict).

You can just prepare the firmware on the hard disk or a floppy, remove the CD drive to boot to DOS then reinsert it and reflash. Either that or return it to Dell, but they wouldn't like that with my converted drive!